The Smoking Gun8. Forget cellphones. The hot new item for L.A. County Sheriff's deputies to smuggle into jail on behalf of inmates is:
Heroin. Wrapped in a burrito.
According to a Grand Jury indictment just unsealed by the L.A. District Attorney this afternoon, sheriff's deputy Henry Marin, 27, was caught "smuggling drugs into a courthouse jail in a burrito" on February 23, 2010. And a probe by the sheriff's Internal Criminal Investigations Bureau found... Read more from "Heroin Burrito Allegedly Smuggled Into L.A. County Jail by Deputy Henry Marin."
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2. You're flying along and suddenly two F-16 fighters pull up alongside your little Cessna 182 and kindly ask that you get the hell down. There's marijuana on-board (allegedly), so ...
A) You're paranoid and seeing things; B) They know! C) You're a dumbass who just violated a federal no-fly rule created to make way for President Obama's visit to Los Angeles.
You know, of course, the answer is ...
C. But it could be all of the above.* Read more from "Plane With Marijuana On-Board Forced to Land as Obama Flies Nearby, Officials Say."
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LL Cool J / Facebook1. A would-be burglar picked the wrong house and the suspect was met with the fists of fury of one LL Cool J, who had in fact warned us via classic rap songs that he's "hard as hell" and that his "mama said knock you out." Read more from "Turns Out LL Cool J Is Hard as Hell."
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L.A. had another banner year for idiots allegedly committing crimes. From Nazi Moms and heroin-burrito smuggling cops, to a drug plane that flew too close to Air Force One and the burglar with the absolute worst choice in houses to rob, here are the year's top ten dumbest criminals.